The British government will take legal action for the dismissal of some 800 sailors by the ferry company P&O without notice to replace them with foreigners and interim ones, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Wednesday.
“We are going to take legal action against the company in question, under the 'labour' law and we will take it to court to defend the rights of British workers,” Johnson told Parliament.
“It seems to me that the company in question has broken the law and we will take action, and we will encourage employees to take them,” he insisted.
On 17 March, the British company P&O Ferries - which operates maritime links between the United Kingdom, Ireland, France and the Netherlands - announced the immediate dismissal of nearly 800 crew members, stating that “the survival of the company” depended on it.
They were replaced by foreign workers - Colombians, Indians and Filipinos among other nationalities cited by the press - and interim workers, sparking outrage in the United Kingdom over the way in which the restructuring of a company hit hard by restrictions due to the pandemic took place.
Owned by DP World, a Dubai-based port operator, P&O responded to the British government's requests by ensuring that the dismissed employees had been hired outside the UK for foreign-flagged ships and therefore the company was not obliged to inform the executive or consult the country's unions. about their intentions.
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